As it seems I'm not doing very well keeping the business topics content updated, I should at least alert you to new photos as I post them. I upgraded my camera to a Sony A7iii this spring and bought a lot of good glass, so I've been having fun taking shots. As always, I will probably be ...

Yesterday was the 4th of July. America's 241st birthday. I'm old enough to vividly remember the Bicentennial and all the hoopla and buildup that went into that. I was a teenager then, so if that was really 41 years ago, I guess that means that I'm really old now. Even though ...

A couple of weeks ago, a group of friends and I took our annual kiteboarding pilgrammage to Cape Hatteras. We go to Hatteras for a lot of reasons: great surf, largely undisturbed natural coastline, consistent wind. But I go for one primary reason: to find the glass.The Pimlico sound is ...

Let's face it, the nature of employer / employee relationships has changed permanently. While you still need to work your butt off every day to deliver for your company and grow your career, the concept of "job security" as we once knew it has basically ceased to exist. A lot of things can happen, ...

Recently, a friend shared a post with me from Business Insider, entitled How To Use Math To Crush Your Friends At Monopoly Like You've Never Done Before. This BI presentation deck by Walter Hickey, which analyzes the mechanisms behind the popular board game Monopoly, was especially interesting for ...

This post is highly time critical, as the sports metaphor around which this whole topic is based is likely to have wound down by the time you read this post. The NCAA Basketball Tournament is my favorite sporting event by far, and last night we saw a virtually unknown #15 seeded team take out a ...

Recently I've been inspired by some pretty engaging discussions going on on Google+ about the concept of "the connected enterprise" by some big thinkers like Gideon Rosenblatt, Gregory Esau, Braden Kelly and John Kellden . An underlying theme of many of these discussions is that technology will ...

Several days ago on a trans-Pacific flight I read two interesting articles in the same newspaper. One was an analysis of the most recent jobs and unemployment report from the US, in which most analysts were puzzled by the lack of real job creation and economic growth. The other article was about ...

Last week, I attended some meetings up at the Homestead Resort, in the Allegheny mountains of Virginia. (It's a great venue, by the way, with a real historic Jeffersonian flair and a beautiful backdrop). I drove up from my office in Greensboro, NC, taking a lovely scenic drive over rural Virginia ...

All of us have had the unpleasant experience of coming across roadkill. Although I've never seen empirical evidence, I'm pretty sure that most of these victims never intended to end up the way we found them. Most of these unfortunate endings happened because of a desire to move beyond their ...